Advertising and technology industry advocates spoke out against legislation offered by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., to stop the surreptitious collection of location data from smartphones and other devices.

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What's being said

We have enough of loss of privacy. The gatherers sum how flaunted the "do not call rule" but nothing is done to stop the violators.

John Galt

Jun 05, 2014

Self regulation is in this context, an oxymoron.

James

Jun 05, 2014

Next these marketing companies will be asserting the right to collect all information on your phone. The GAO testified as to the collection of tracking and location data that: "companies did not consistently or clearly disclose to consumers what the companies do with these data or the third parties with which they might share the data . . . ."

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